FIH.U vs. CIX, SII, UNC, CVG, GCG.A, CGI, SEC, DFN, FSZ, and AGF.B
Should you be buying Fairfax India stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fairfax India include CI Financial (CIX), Sprott (SII), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Fiera Capital (FSZ), and AGF Management (AGF.B). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) and CI Financial (TSE:CIX) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Fairfax India's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled CI Financial'saverage media sentiment score.
CI Financial received 313 more outperform votes than Fairfax India when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.55% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote.
CI Financial has a consensus price target of C$19.56, indicating a potential upside of 33.67%. Given CI Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CI Financial is more favorable than Fairfax India.
32.4% of Fairfax India shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.8% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.5% of Fairfax India shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of CI Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fairfax India has a net margin of 37.36% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -5.55%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 5.17% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
Fairfax India has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fairfax India, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fairfax India beats CI Financial on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FIH.U and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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